WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.520 Oh my god, is that Nico Blitter to see them 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.040 want to raised If you ain't get the memo sipping 3 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:07.040 in the city and send you know we put them 4 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.000 at them, then go stuff in them hoos in the 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.359 limo because they said they come from the jaw. They say, 6 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:16.120 you know, I ain't gotta work last night show, so 7 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:29.559 well watch watch what you make you feeling that you're 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.280 gonna give me a billion and shall run the back 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.119 of willing. I'm gonna be up on the island shilling. 10 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:35.159 I came away from the wheeling and still run with 11 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:36.840 the five six feeling. We live live like I ain't 12 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.240 no deal list. It's gonna to be killing fifty one. 13 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.359 Hey Juice and my leave boo kera boll What now 14 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.200 they they got mat of the shell and raise ol 15 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:55.840 we go buy toys. Oh no, no, oh, no Cruise 16 00:00:55.880 --> 00:01:00.719 show until nine is on the cruise man. That was 17 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.560 a really nice mix. Bro Nico Blitz on the intro 18 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:10.719 right that new node and you know I told Cruise 19 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:12.560 before we got up here. I was like I had 20 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.200 to throw them the jelly sickle. Yes, that was my 21 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:20.959 introductions exactly six Yeah, crazy crazy Rick Rock did those 22 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.280 beats a lot of beats on the ever Ready album Man. 23 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.400 From the pay area, so it's very close forty. 24 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.280 It was like, okay, that was obviously that was my 25 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:34.120 first That's how I met mugs. That's that's forty security. Yeah, 26 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:45.079 shared him with me place no no Diddy. I'm sorry 27 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.519 it worked out. Yeah, yeah, right, good people working with 28 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.200 good people. Man sir, Yes, welcome back, Man. How you 29 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.640 feeling Man, Real good Man, real good Man? About to 30 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.680 drop a new album Man on Friday, Man, June twenty seventh, 31 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:58.799 Man Ready at the age sixteen for us, I'm so 32 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.799 happy to be talking about the album cover. Well, I 33 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.480 wanted to take it back to where a time where 34 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:06.280 I couldn't afford to wear what I got on. You 35 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.520 know what I'm saying, This is up with everything you 36 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.199 couldn't afford exactly exactly exactly. I couldn't afford the J's 37 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.240 back then, you know what I'm sayzling, I couldn't afford 38 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:19.360 the red and white troop like LLKJ. I really wanted that, 39 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.719 you know, from the bigger and defferent kind of like era, 40 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.000 you know, and the J three's Man, you know what 41 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.199 I'm saying, And I just wanted to be way Kansas 42 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:31.960 City out with my hat flipped up, you know what 43 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.879 I mean. That's how the d Boys look back then, 44 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.479 and I couldn't afford it. So I wanted to bring 45 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:39.879 that back because I was taking it all the way 46 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.319 back as the origin story. So here we go. You 47 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:42.759 know what I'm saying. 48 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:44.840 Back then, inspiration was in the street. It wasn't on 49 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.039 our televisions. It wasn't on the screen. Inspirations were on 50 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:50.120 the corner. 51 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.319 Totally, totally, you know what I'm saying, wearing the Dope 52 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.919 Boy redbox and the J's and yes, sir, driving the 53 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.599 mini trucks and yes, sir. You see, I had all 54 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.280 three of my strange chains on too, flex and I 55 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:04.919 was flexing, and I look good for my age too. 56 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:05.800 So I'm like, yeah, go. 57 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.919 Ahead, tech, you don't age, man? 58 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.719 What what what is it? Bro? Talk to me? 59 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:11.039 Man? 60 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:13.800 You're taking TikTok vitamins. 61 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:14.199 What do we do? 62 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:25.439 Puerto Rican lady? Yeah? Man, she got me doing parasite cleanses, man, 63 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:31.520 like she got me you know, doing different facial think 64 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.120 of a jigs, you know what I mean. For instance, 65 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.199 I had like what you call a sabasis assist right here, 66 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:39.800 you know, and My doctor told me I was gonna 67 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.560 have to get it cut out. And my lady is like, na, 68 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.319 because you're gonna leave a mark on your beautiful face. Nope, nope, nope, 69 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:47.759 I said. She said, you gotta change your cocoa butter 70 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:50.919 and your shade butter to tallow. I'm like, what the 71 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:55.159 hell is beef? Yeah? Okay, yeah, but this one is 72 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.120 scented kind of, you know what I mean. Her friend 73 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.000 makes it for me, and now it's a basic assist 74 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.439 is no more, you know, just giving me remedies, many 75 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.759 to keep me here for a while. You know, we 76 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.159 got a two year old little girl now. 77 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:09.439 Man. 78 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.120 Oh yeah, we need to stick around longer. 79 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.800 Yeah right, I'm gonna need that, man, because I got 80 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:15.680 assists right here. 81 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.199 Yeah. Man, you know what I'm saying you need it's 82 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.879 just built up oil. Yeah, that's what the doctor told me. 83 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:22.720 They'll tell you got to get it cut out, and 84 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.240 it's natural things you can do. You know. Before you 85 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:27.240 walked in, I had that lump on my face. You 86 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:29.439 see it? No, No, it's gone. 87 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.879 I had the face yeah man. The link Yeah, that 88 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.319 lady's phone number. She Puerto Rican, My my wife, the 89 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.519 other the lady that's making the beef towel. 90 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.439 No, no, no, I think she's black. 91 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:50.560 Okay, Before you walked in, we were talking about breath 92 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.480 control and breath control, different different breathing techniques. 93 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.120 Right, who's that guy you were talking about? 94 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:55.720 Whim Hoff? 95 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.920 Wim Hoff? I know that I know that name, but 96 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.079 I know that name from. 97 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.720 White dude like beard and everything. I think he's from 98 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:04.079 a constantine. Where's he from? 99 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.839 Breathing techniques? Well, you know how to get diseases out 100 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:09.759 of your body through breathing? 101 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.519 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that. I've heard that. 102 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:13.839 I thought you're talking about like like like singing like 103 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.560 in rapp and you're on stage. You also have to 104 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:19.839 have somewhat of a technique, right, total technique. 105 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:20.000 Man. 106 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:23.480 This thing we posted a while back, it's like a commercial. 107 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.959 It was a commercial for this record. It was pre 108 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.279 order commercial and I did a whole live verse and 109 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:32.639 I told people to watch my chest like I'm like 110 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.680 middle school Uppere's no one for sure the man whatever 111 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:38.959 that be hre, Papa, Y ain't know. The jam school 112 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.600 slife is a load of fans go to cram in 113 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.160 the bathroom. This baftoons come against me, get krysaling soda 114 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.120 can till one day. They told me, if I'm somebody 115 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:46.439 that can hold me, wrap it a dance in one 116 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.279 of their homies, a new Trent for eighth grade en rolling. 117 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.040 I can say it all in one breath because of 118 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.600 my breathing techniques. I do three big breaths in between rhyming, 119 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.639 and it allows me to do a whole four bars 120 00:05:58.800 --> 00:05:59.720 like that. You know what I'm saying? 121 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.160 So you know, yeah, man, Yeah, you're inhaling every time. Yeah, 122 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.800 so you're yes, you're giving yourself breath versus giving it up. 123 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.000 Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I'm holding it so it's in reverse, 124 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.399 but I'm holding my breath, but I'm still projecting, you 125 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:12.759 know what I'm saying. It's crazy. 126 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:13.560 Wow. 127 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.680 I taught myself that a long time ago, man, you 128 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:17.839 know what I mean, because I wanted to. I wanted 129 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:19.439 to kind of be different from a lot of people, 130 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.279 you know, when it comes to skill and being able 131 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.680 to say things. Even if I have to cram a 132 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.680 lot of words in a four bar segment, I can 133 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:28.839 really get it out, you know what I mean? Live, Yeah, Yes, 134 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:30.360 And that's why a lot of people still come to 135 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.319 my shows because it sounds just like the records. Thank you, 136 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:38.399 yes sir, and be disappointed like, man, that's a studio, man, 137 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.759 he can't do that, right right right? We do this 138 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.600 for real artists, man, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I always 139 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.680 say real yeah yeah man. Live shows. I got one 140 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.759 coming up, like a short one though, at the Grammy 141 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.399 Museum on Thursday. I do like a thirty minute show 142 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.360 real quick for everybody to let's get it. Let's get it, 143 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:55.759 yeah man. 144 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:57.959 A lot of artists will show up, the beat drops 145 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.279 and the audience does the show right right, right right. 146 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.120 That's the new generation they you know, they don't care, 147 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.199 you know, they just get You're just there and you 148 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.160 got the track plan and they're singing it. You know 149 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:13.120 what I mean. Must feel good. But we from Generation X, 150 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.720 We're gonna make sure you hear everything. You know what 151 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.680 I mean. I'm the main vocal, The main vocal is 152 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.680 out of there. I'm the main vocal on the mic. 153 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:23.600 Just like you understand that they're paying to see you 154 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:26.519 and you are going to give them everything you. 155 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.000 Have, Yes, sir, I think that's that's that's why they 156 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.040 keep coming back. Let's come. You know what I'm saying. 157 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.240 People keep saying they say, Hey, you got to come 158 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.560 see this Tech nine show. You know what I'm saying. 159 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.319 I used to have like three dudes up there with 160 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.680 me helping me back in the day reinforcement, and then 161 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.519 when they all went on their own, I'm like, oh, 162 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.120 what am I going to do? I've never been on 163 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.240 stage by myself. But I realized that all those breathing 164 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.160 techniques I've been doing for all those decades work for me. 165 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.800 I can get my Kendrick and DMX and jay Z 166 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:55.920 on finally, you know what I'm saying, and still have 167 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:57.920 a dope show, you know what I mean. And that's 168 00:07:57.959 --> 00:07:59.879 what a lot of people see now. They're like, Man, 169 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:04.240 it's different up there with you without Chris, Without Chris Calico, 170 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.759 I'm like, but have you seen me with my band lately? 171 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.759 You know what I mean? You know, so we still 172 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:10.319 got that energy. 173 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:14.879 Were getting it done, yes, sir, gatherings, the gathering of 174 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.120 the it's coming up. 175 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:17.160 Yeah. 176 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:19.560 How did that all start for you? And and that 177 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:25.360 fan base. It's a vicious fan base. It started alone 178 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.439 time ago in two thousand and three, when I was 179 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.279 asked to be on one of their tours, the Wicked 180 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.440 Wanker Tour, wow. And on that tour, I gained a 181 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.879 lot of Juggalos and juggallettes. Those are ICP ICP fans, 182 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.080 you know what I'm saying. A lot of them. I'm 183 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.399 talking about around the world in Canada, and that's a 184 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.120 world own. Yeah man, yeah, man. It's like a subculture. 185 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.919 It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it before in 186 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.720 my life. And over the years, I just became family. 187 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.399 Now it got rocky in the middle where they thought 188 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.639 that I was on a radio station and I said 189 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.279 something that they didn't agree with, and you know, I 190 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.600 was just talking out the gathering and how crazy it was, 191 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.559 and they felt like I didn't say enough about the Juggalos, 192 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:06.879 and you know, the clowns said something. And now I 193 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.200 started getting death threats and this, that and the other. 194 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.559 And I remember I did a show with them, a 195 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.279 gathering around that time. When I was getting death threats. 196 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.279 It was like like four gatherings ago or so, you 197 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.000 know what I mean. And I felt like I was 198 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.240 being attacked. So I said, I'm not doing it no more. 199 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.639 So I've been away doing my own stuff without doing 200 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.840 the gathering. But when I heard last year that they 201 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:33.759 were doing the gathering of the Juggalos, the Legends. I 202 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:36.039 called my book an agent, and I said, listen, if 203 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:39.320 they call me for this show, because I told them, 204 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:40.440 I don't never want to do it again. You know 205 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:42.320 what I'm saying. I said to be I want to 206 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.759 feel like I'm not being targeted when I'm on stage, 207 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:47.519 you know what I'm saying. And I want to feel 208 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.720 comfortable not be thinking about anything else, you know. But 209 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:53.320 I told them if they call me, if Psychopathic called 210 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.240 me for the Legends, say yes, I'll do it. So 211 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.759 I'm doing the new one coming up. Hey, let's go. Yeah, man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 212 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:06.320 totally totally yes, sir man, all the comments, everybody's happy 213 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:07.799 that I'm coming, you know, that's right, That's right. How 214 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.519 did that get squashed? We had to talk about it, man, 215 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.879 Me and the clowns. Man, they kind of felt like that, 216 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.279 you know, on that tour that I didn't have face paint. 217 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.039 I just had it across my face, but I mean 218 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.559 my forehead. But the artist that I had out there 219 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.399 was not my friend Brian Bezel Dennis because he got killed. 220 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:29.879 He started painting my face in ninety four and I 221 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.240 was the killer clown since then. In Kansas City Missouri, 222 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.840 you know, saying with a full skull face. But on 223 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.200 that tour, I just had I think it was Craig 224 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.440 Davis rest is soul. He was painting my foreheads, like 225 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.440 words on my forehead and stuff like that, and he 226 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.159 could he didn't have the skill to paint my whole 227 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.879 face like Brian, you know. So the clowns were under 228 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:51.039 the impression when I started. When I got a better one, 229 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.799 a better artist to do my face, they were under 230 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:57.799 impressing that I took it from them. They didn't know 231 00:10:57.960 --> 00:10:59.799 that I was to kill a clown back in the 232 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.159 night twenty four before I even heard about So I 233 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.000 had to give them the history of Tech nine and 234 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.679 the history of the killer Clown in Kansas City. It 235 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.759 was a myth that clown was driving a yellow van 236 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:12.759 and he was kidnapped kids, but it was just a myth. 237 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.480 We never saw it, but we were scared to death 238 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:19.120 as kids. But I became the killer Clown lyrically, you know, 239 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:23.879 And I gave them the whole background of Tech nine, 240 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.720 and then they understood. And then my next tour they 241 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.360 came out. I came to their town, Detroit, and they 242 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:32.840 came out and introduced me for the crowd. It sold 243 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.840 out crowd at the Star. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's 244 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.039 how it was squashed. Okay, it was just a conversation. 245 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.279 That's all it takes sometimes, right, Let's just sit down 246 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:41.559 and talk it. Yes, sir, yes, sir. 247 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.080 You know a lot could be fixed with the conversation, totally, man, 248 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.279 So sure you know on fifty eight sixteen Forest, what 249 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:48.200 does Yoda sound like? 250 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:53.279 Yoda? What does it sound like? Man? It sounds like 251 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.600 a hit to me, I'm saying. Okay, and not just 252 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.679 because Wayne is on the hook, because on this record 253 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.759 is just all me on the verse. I've never did 254 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:03.360 a in my whole discography. I've never had an LP 255 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.360 where I'm on all the verses because I you know, 256 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.720 I pride myself on collaborating with elite artists, you know, 257 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:13.240 but this one's all me, you know, on all the verses. 258 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.279 And when I got to Yoda, I tried to do 259 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.799 a whack and hook you know what I'm saying on 260 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.919 my own, and it wasn't working. So as I started 261 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:27.320 working through that really hard to write song because I'm 262 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.919 actually I had the idea to rap like Yoda talks 263 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:36.960 and George Lucas made him talk backwards, like what do 264 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.679 you say something like a Jedi? Skywalker is you know, 265 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.879 like I said, Skywalker is a Jedi? You know? Yeah. 266 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:53.279 So I'm starting off like broke I am. I'm talking 267 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.759 about myself back when I was young. Broke I am. 268 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.159 And I'm like, what do I say next? Equivalent to 269 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.120 a whopping twenty tons of pure don't my gams? I'm like, oh, 270 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:07.799 what's happening? Have your rhyming ticket revoked? I can right 271 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:09.919 next to it really starving kill a goat wife dand 272 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:11.919 you know what I'm saying, I'm rapping like Yoda. So 273 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:13.799 after I got through it the first verse, I'm like, 274 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.000 I got it. Oh, I got to do two more verses. 275 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:24.039 It was the hardest song, Yes, and have to rhyme 276 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.159 and then do it with style three verses, three verse 277 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:31.960 right back and forth with me, Damon and Mario you 278 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:37.039 know what perform Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So after I 279 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:41.840 wrote it and my hook was whack, I said, I 280 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:46.000 said I need another alien on this. Yeah. 281 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:46.879 Yeah. 282 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:49.759 So I hit Wayne up and he said it right back, man, 283 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.200 And it's like the song is like in hit for him. 284 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.919 It starts off with a hook and then after the 285 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.840 first verse is another hook and then another verse and 286 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:00.320 it's a hook and it's four hooks. Man. So I 287 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:02.600 didn't even have to tell Wayne because he's such an 288 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.639 elite artist, you know, I didn't even have to tell him, Hey, man, 289 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:08.600 can you make the hooks not fly the hooks? You 290 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:11.200 know what I'm saying, So it won't be repetitious, you 291 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.919 know what I mean? And just do variations of four hooks. 292 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:16.120 You know. 293 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.440 I sent it to him. Variations came back to me. 294 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:24.480 I'm like, boom, yeah, is that response or that like 295 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.159 that email back from Wayne with all those verses. 296 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:30.159 Soon as I sent it to him, I got it 297 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:34.039 back in like a few days. Wow. Yeah, you know 298 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.080 what I'm saying. And he understood because when we shot 299 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:38.759 the video, you know, we got the video shot finally, 300 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:40.960 because we've been working together for years. We could have 301 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.480 like an EP with all our songs, and I never 302 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.960 could lock down a video because we're always busy. He 303 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.360 is touring, I'm touring, he's doing this thing. He's Wayne, man, 304 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.279 you know what I'm saying. So this time we finally 305 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:54.879 locked him down with video and he understood. When we 306 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.440 were talking in between shots, I was like, man, this 307 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.399 song was so hard to write, he said, I heard 308 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:03.840 it talking like Yoda. I'm like, he gets it, and people, 309 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.639 because of the style, they're probably not going to get 310 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.679 that I'm talking like that, even though the first thing 311 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:16.360 I say is broke I am. But we did it. Yeah, 312 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.679 got it done, man, got the video done. 313 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:18.879 Man. 314 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.360 So Yoda. That's the story of Yoda man, and the 315 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.000 reason why I got the name Yoda because x Rayded 316 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.480 calls me Yoda because I'm a Jedi lyrically and I 317 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.480 feel the same thing about him. People call him Yoda 318 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:30.879 as well, so you know what I mean, he calls 319 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:31.360 me Yoda. 320 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.159 So along with the title, right, the concept and Yoda 321 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.080 sounds like it every song or a lot of the 322 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.559 content of of of each song or you know, of 323 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:43.759 what's on the project. 324 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:44.279 Excuse me? 325 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.080 Is it from that standpoint where you were just starting 326 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:48.879 out what you were? 327 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.320 Yes, it was my It's my origin story what Lola 328 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:54.480 talks about when I broke up my first rhyme. You 329 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:57.000 know what I'm saying as a dare on the school bus, 330 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.720 you know. Yeah, So you know, like you got the 331 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.000 starts off with the birth I'm being born, you know, 332 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:05.799 then Friday to Sunday. I'm talking about my mom married 333 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:07.960 a Muslim when I was twelve, and we moved on 334 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:09.799 fifty eight sixteen for us, and here come out all 335 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.519 the stories from age twelve to age seventeen. When I 336 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:16.200 ran away from home on the quest to become Tech nine, 337 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.080 my mom married a Muslim. We coming from a Christian house. 338 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.919 I felt like he was being hard on me and 339 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.399 being mean to me. So once I got to seventeen, 340 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.200 you think, you know, we think we know everything. So 341 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.159 I'm like, I'm getting out of here, you know. And 342 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:32.960 I had something planned. So I was going to tell 343 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.159 my mom that I'm going to Azida's for Thanksgiving holiday, 344 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.440 you know, secause school is out, you know. But I 345 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.240 came downstairs with the big trash bags. She said, you 346 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.440 need all those clothesing trash backs go for a couple 347 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:46.440 of days. I'm like yeah, and she kind of had 348 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.240 a turn around eye and gave her a kiss, walked 349 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.799 down the street, said bout all my friends. Have my 350 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.759 cousin come pick me up. Pun never came back when 351 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.679 the quest to become Tech nine. Now what I learned 352 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:01.399 is as I matured, I realized he wasn't trying to 353 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:03.320 be mean to me. He was trying to make me 354 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:09.480 a better man, you know, a self sufficient man, an entrepreneur. 355 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:13.240 That's why he was taking me to seminars, business seminars 356 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:15.440 when I was twelve and thirteen. I didn't understand, you know, 357 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:16.240 what I was doing. 358 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:17.720 He felt he was being dragged. 359 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:22.599 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah man, and unconsciously picking this thing 360 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.680 up over the years and ended up owning my own business, 361 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.599 Strange Music, and being the number one end upend a 362 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.799 rapper in the world. So I say that had to 363 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.839 carry on it, yeah man, you know. And I wrote 364 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.400 a song called The Punishment and I talked about him 365 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.200 put me on punishment for weeks, I mean not weeks, 366 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:43.200 for summers. And it was a blood neighborhood where we stayed, 367 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.200 you know what I'm saying, because the Bloods moved thirty 368 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.640 seventh Street, Foodtown, Brim moved from out here to our neighborhood, 369 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.240 you know what I'm saying, and turned it all ready, 370 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:53.359 you know what I'm so. He knew that it was 371 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:55.519 problems out there in the streets, so whenever I was 372 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:57.960 messing up in school, he would put me on punishment 373 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.359 for the whole summer. And I'm like, who's on punishment 374 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:03.960 for the whole summer, the whole summer. Two summers I 375 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.240 was on. You know, one summer I was messing up. 376 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.519 I was I can't go outside, just go to work 377 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.119 and take out the trash. That's it. Another summer, Come 378 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.960 I do something else crazy, get busted with a girl 379 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.319 in the locker room or something, you know what I'm saying. 380 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:19.799 Then I got to be u punishment for the whole summer. So, 381 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:25.359 you know, as I got older and more mature, I 382 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:28.240 understood that he was trying to make me a good 383 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.839 man and you know, and wasn't being mean to me, 384 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:33.400 and was just trying to make sure I was protected. 385 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.039 So in the in the third verse of the punishment song, 386 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.039 I tell him that he's the reason why I'm the 387 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.960 multi millionaire I am today. You know what I'm saying, 388 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.640 dendicated to him in a way he has dedicated to him. 389 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.519 And I have my brother Hakim played for him, and 390 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.559 he said, man, you know my name, my name, my 391 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:53.079 middle name is Dantees. So he calls me Donnie. He said, 392 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.160 tell Donnie that. I said, thank you, cause he probably 393 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:58.720 we never really talked about it. You know, I left 394 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.039 his house with my mom and never came back. That 395 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.559 was it. That's it. You never came back. I know, 396 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:06.000 like I would go visit mom ytff like that. But 397 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.480 again no, no, no, no, I never lived there again. 398 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:13.440 And uh, you know him him hearing me, fine, resolve 399 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.799 in our situation through the punishment. He said, tell Donnie, 400 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.440 I said thank you. Don't forget to tell Donnie. I 401 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.400